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Protagonists
Easter Mitchour
- Guys, as much as I love all this bonding time, I'd rather not be doing it in the rain.
- Affectionate Nickname: The gang calls him East.
- Animal Motifs: Is associated with bears.
- Ass Shove: Nester shoves his whole fist on him as punishment for setting him up at the arcade.
- Full-Frontal Assault: After being raped by his brother, he proceeds to bludgeon him wearing nothing but his open shirt.
- Older Than He Looks: He's in his 20s, but by looks and voice could easily pass for much younger.
- Protectorate: Mugwort, Olie and Totl feel this in varying degrees towards him, such as prioritizing his safety when they're cornered by the masked man.
Mugwort Krills
- Gotta wait till the storm's over to find our way outta this mess, and we'll freeze our asses off in the car.
- Affectionate Nickname: The gang calls him Muggy.
- Ambiguously Related: Shares the same surname as Bucks Krills from Our Wonderland, though their relation is unknown.
- Animal Motifs: Is associated with dogs.
- Big Eater: He can eat more than one sitting of cake. And food is sometimes the first thing on his mind.
- Brutal Honesty: Tends to speak what's on his mind. Such as telling Nester that they only hang out with him because he's Easter's brother.
- Drives Like Crazy: Which is how the gang gets lost at the start of the game.
- Hidden Depths: Despite being the most dimwitted of the gang, he's aware that something is wrong at the Mitchour household, but is too young to understand.
- Large Ham: Really gets into whatever he's doing, such as making a dramatic toast for his birthday.
- Motor Mouth: When he gets excited, he has a tendency of babbling at high speed.
- Tongue Trauma: The masked man slices off his tongue.
Totl
- Some reunion THIS turned out to be.
- Animal Motifs: Is associated with rats.
- Big Damn Heroes: As children, he bailed Easter out of trouble all the time, such as protecting him from bullies and helping him find his toys. Though it's implied Easter kept hidden his toys on purpose because he liked the attention Totl gave him.
- Beneath the Mask: Admits that he uses his sarcastic persona to conceal his true feelings.
- Cool Big Bro: Tries to be this to Easter.
- Deadpan Snarker: Often has harsh words for the schemes, thoughts, and actions of the gang.
- Totl: Your clothes are already a lovely shade of vomit. Don't wanna spoil it with blood, do we?Easter: Trust you to make a joke out of any situation.Totl: It's what keeps me sane.
- Facial Horror: The masked man slices off his ears.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: He acts sarcastic and serious towards anyone, even his own friends. His sugar side is mainly for Easter.
- Undying Loyalty: Completely devoted to Easter.
Olie Fishborn
- My glasses are so wet, I can barely see...
- Abusive Parents: His father not only turned to alcohol to cope with the stress of working in Monte Arcade, he changed for the worse after he found out his wife was cheating on him with Monte.
- Animal Motifs: Is associated with rabbits.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: You'd be forgiven if you thought he was a girl, judging by his twintails and his clothing.
- Eye Scream: The masked man cuts off his eyes.
- Extreme Doormat: He is often defined by his lack of self-confidence and backbone.
- Girlish Pigtails: Olie wears his hair this way, reflecting his innocent personality.
- Innocently Insensitive: He's bad at picking up on the obvious cues that his mother is cheating on his father with Monte. In part it's due to his being dense, but it's also due to being too young to understand.
- Nervous Wreck: Is chronically anxious, has next to no self-confidence, and constantly assumes the worst scenarios.
Nester Mitchour
- That music...I don't like it. Could you...turn it off?
- Affectionate Nickname: His brother calls him Nest.
- Animal Motifs: Is associated with cats.
- Deadpan Snarker: Surprisingly, despite his general passivity and stoic demeanor, he can be really snippy when he wants to be.
- Big Little Brother: Looks bigger and older than Easter.
- I Got Bigger: Despite being a shrimpy child and the youngest of the gang , he outgrowns them as a young adult.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: A running gag is that Nester tends to be excluded from the gang's activities, such as forcing him to take the backseat in the beginning or Mugwort forgetting to include him in his birthday toast. And not only Nester is horribly aware of it, he resents them. To the point that he does nothing to help after Easter mutilates them.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Near the end of the game he starts acting sadistic and vindictive, mocking his injured friends and very fixated in making them apologize to him for his past rape. This serves a clue of how it isn't the real Nester and the story is All Just a Dream.
- Rape and Revenge: Ties Olie, Totl and Mugwort to mock their mutilations and performs a brutal Ass Shove on Easter as revenge for setting him up to be raped by their father. However the real Nester isn't that petty and Easter is just projecting his negative side on him.
- The Stoic: His expression rarely changes from neutral and unamused, letting the others do the majority of the talking. Except when he isn't.
- Trauma Button: The Monte Arcade jingle thanks to his traumatic experience.
Others
Monte Mitchour
- Easter, sh-she hurt me ag-gain. I d-don't know what to d-do...At least, I h-have you...You'll n-never l-leave me, Easter...
The owner of the Monte Arcade and the father of Easter and Nester.
- Asshole Victim: Killed by an angry Richard upon finding out his wife was cheating on him....in an incident arranged by Easter, the son he tormented for years.
- Cool Old Guy: Everyone remembers him fondly as the owner of their favorite childhood spot. At least until we find out more about him.
- Dirty Old Man: Sexually abused his two sons.
- Disproportionate Retribution: How does he respond to catching Nester shoplifting? He rapes him.
- Hypocrite: Insists he must have sex with Easter in order to fill the void his wife left behind, and yet he was in a relationship with Olie's mother.
- The Faceless: There's a lot of references to him, but no actual appearances, only in flashbacks. He also lacks any character artwork, except for a sprite that shows he has the same brown hair as Easter.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Easter set him up to die as revenge for years of sexual abuse.
- The Loins Sleep Tonight: After his wife became an alcoholic, he became impotent with her. So he started to molest Easter.
- Never My Fault: When it comes to Easter's rape, he acts like he doesn't have any choice in the matter, using his loneliness as a shield.
- Posthumous Character: He died shortly before the start of the plot.
- Porky Pig Pronunciation: Tends to stutter a lot.
Richard Fishborn
- It's true! These pictures say everything! You slept with him and that's the last thing you'll do!
- Abusive Parents: Is stated to be very controlling and prone to fits of rage (which is probably why his son is a nervous wreck) and tore Olie's eyes out in a psychotic break.
- Broken Pedestal: Olie, who seems to want to remember primarily Richard's good qualities, is forced to begrudgingly admit he wasn't a good person.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Tears his son's eyes out just for being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Killer Rabbit: Is using his Monte Rabbit suit when he kills his wife, Monte and tears Olie's eyes.
- Madness Mantra: You didn't see anything....You didn't see anything....You didn't see anything.....
- Mood-Swinger: Was prone to fits of anger due to alcoholism and the stress of his job.
- Unwitting Pawn: To Easter.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unknown what happens to him after Monte's murder.
Spoiler Characters
Easter Mitchour (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
- Wouldn't you have liked to see it? Mr. Fishborn's bat cracking open dad's head like a melon? Trust me, it was glorious.
- Asshole Victim: In the Retribution Ending he has his eyes, ears and tongue sliced by Nester, and then left to slowly bleed to death. Given the number of people he had ruined, several who weren't even responsible for his abuse, it's hard to feel sorry for him when that happens.
- Beneath the Mask: He comes across as a kindly and friendly young man and genuinely fond of his brother and friends. However, when he has no reason to keep up that front, he gleefully reveals the true extent of his murderous nature.
- Big Brother Instinct: While he acts standoffish to Nester and set him up to be raped by their father, deep down he does in fact love his brother and goes apeshit when he accidentally kills him in the True Ending.
- The Corrupter: To many characters, at different points in the story:
- Showed Olie's father photos of his wife infidelity with his own father. Monte might have been killed by him, but it was Easter who planned it.
- Convinced Nester to shoplift the arcade, knowing he'll run into their father and be raped as punishment.
- Tries to convince Nester to kill and let out his repressed anger on him. While it doesn't work on the True Ending, he does succeed in the Retribution Ending.
- Emotionless Boy: When he was a child he acted in an emotionally restrained fashion to cope with his father's abuse, at least until Nester encouraged him to smile more. The utter glee he reacts with with when Nester is raped by their father proves that this is a facade, and indeed, the whole game is about Easter achieving catharsis. A very destructive one.
- Enfant Terrible: Sorta, he's in his 20s but is Older Than They Look. When he crossed the Despair Event Horizon and set his brother to be raped and his father to die, however...
- Evil Is Petty: You honestly can’t get any pettier than trying to ruin your friends' lives simply because they're happier than you.
- Green-Eyed Monster: He's gone through such hard times that he deeply hates anyone who's had a better deal than him: Totl and Mugwort had supportive parents, Nester wasn't abused, etc.
- Go Out with a Smile: A truly twisted example in the Retribution Ending. He smiles as he's bleeding to death, content that he got Nester to finally give in to hatred.....at least until Nester decides he's going to mutilate him like he did to his friends.
- Freudian Excuse: Easter was sexually abused by his father. This would make him a more sympathetic character, if he didn't take his resulting anger out on everyone else.
- Karma Houdini: Got away with his role in Monte's death and mutilating his friends because he had repressed his memories for so long.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: In the True Ending, after regaining his memories and killing Nester, he's promptly lobotomized.
- Perpetual Smiler: After being lobomotized in the True Ending.
- Psychopathic Manchild: What he really is, unlike his nicer counterpart in the dream world. Monte's murder aside, the way he takes pleasure in inflicting pain on others can be compared to a schoolyard bully beating up on smaller children.
- Rape and Revenge: Plotted the death of his own father as revenge for the years of sexual abuse he suffered.
- Rape as Backstory: His own father became impotent with his wife, leading to him to rape Easter so he could "replace mommy". Easter was a young child when it first happened, and his abuse continued for years.
- Repressed Memories: The Awful Truth he is trying to keep away. Easter has general recollection of his time spent with his friends years ago, but events that were before and after Monte's death are locked away and require a Journey to the Center of the Mind.
- Stepford Smiler: Easter's cheerfulness is a mask for a completely shattered, emotionless psyche due to years of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of his own father.
- Quit Your Whining: Says this to Nester when he calls him out on setting him up to be raped by their father."Oh, boo-hoo! Live my life! That was what, once? I've been putting up with him for years!"
Mugwort Krills (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
- ....
- A Birthday, Not a Break: Got scarred on his birthday.
- Blood from the Mouth: After drinking the bleach, he ends up puking blood all over his birthday cake and the guests's faces.
- Irony: For his birthday, he gives a toast for the best year of his life and hoping that things will continue like that. Not only he loses his tongue, he gets institutionalized along with his friends for his childhood and teenage years.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Not only he's unaware of Easter's troubled home life, he also doesn't know he was the one responsible for his mutilation.
- The Silent Bob: Mugwort doesn't speak, relying on notes to communicate.
- Tongue Trauma: Easter tricked him into drinking bleach, resulting into him burning his tongue and getting institutionalized.
Totl (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
- That's what you want, isn't it? To see me go down in a grand spectacle of ineptitude. I'm not falling for that one again!
- Facial Horror: Gets his face stuck between the sewers, resulting into him losing his ears and getting institutionalized.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Not only he's unaware of Easter's troubled home life, he also doesn't know he was the one indirectly responsible for his mutilation.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Is more gruffer compared to his dream counterpart.
- Suddenly Shouting: Often screams in the midst of talking.
- Stuck in the Doorway: Gets his face stuck between the sewers while trying to find one of Easter's toys. While he does eventually free himself, it's at the cost of his ears.
Olie Fishborn (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
- Hmm, hmm, hmm...
- Eye Scream: His father harmed him during a psychotic break, resulting into him losing his eyes and getting institutionalized.
- Ironically Disabled Artist: Takes a liking to painting despite being blind.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Not only he's unaware of Easter's troubled home life, he also doesn't know he was the one indirectly responsible for his mutilation.
- Took a Level in Cheerfulness: It's implied spending time away from his father improved his psyche and he seems more cheerful compared to his dream self.
Nester Mitchour (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
- You're an animal. You're just like him, don't you see it?
- Accomplice by Inaction: Stood back and did nothing while Easter messed with his friends' lives for sick pleasure. In the True Ending, he states outright that because of this, he's just as guilty for his friends' suffering as Easter himself.
- Big Brother Worship: Greatly looked up to Easter. Him setting him up to be raped by their father completely broke him.
- Creepy Child: After being raped by their father, he loses his cheerful disposition and glares at Easter when he does his evil deeds.
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: While it's evident he is trying not to hold a grudge against his father's sexual abuse, he makes it clear that he will never forget what happened.You're wrong, Easter. Because I'm already free. I forgave Dad a long time ago. Do I ever wanna see him again? Hell no! But letting go of all my hate let me live my life again.
- Karma Houdini: Despite mutilating Easter in the Retribution Ending, he's allowed to leave the asylum.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With Easter. Both were sexually abused by their father and they developed emotionally restrained anger. The difference is that Nester eventually chose to forget the past, while Easter is consumed by hate and resentment. This is reflected in Easter's dream world, Nester appears as a grown man while Easter looks about the same and still wears his child clothes, reflecting how Nester has fundamentally changed and Easter hasn't.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Him encouraging Easter to smile more resulted in him becoming a Stepford Smiler and let his repressed anger out.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: His personality was much more sweet in his childhood than in the present. He used to cry a lot and was much more shy, and was always looking up to his big brother. After being raped by his father, and especially after finding out that Easter set him up he was never the same again.
